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Photos of the Day 03/18

An activist of National Alliance of People's Movements group in New Delhi, holds a candle during a prayer memorial held for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Riot police stand guard during a demonstration in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, Iraq. Protesters gathered to demonstrate against corruption and the lack of government services in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, one of at least four demonstrations, in Iraqi cities on Friday. Khalid Mohammed/AP

A tourist from Israel poses for photos with Sugarloaf mountain in the background in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Obama is scheduled to visit Brazil on March 19 and 20 as part of a Latin American tour that also includes Chile and El Salvador. Felipe Dana/AP

Indian girls buy powdered colors from a wayside vendor ahead of the Holi festival, in Allahabad, India. Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, is traditionally celebrated by people throwing colored powder and colored water at each other and will be marked across the country on March 20. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

A woman attends a rally in support of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli. Gaddafi's government said it was declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its offensive to crush Libya's revolt, as Western warplanes prepared to attack his forces. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

A man checks lists of evacuees at an evacuation center near a devastated area hit by massive earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan a week earlier, in Rikuzentakata. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Britain's Prince Harry, presents Operational Service Medals to members of the First and Second Mine Countermeasures Squadrons at the Naval Base, in Portsmouth, southern England. Luke MacGregor/Reuters

The US Coast Guard Barque Eagle makes its way up Delaware River, in view of the Walt Whitman Bridge in Philadelphia on the first stop of a world tour to celebrate its 75th anniversary. Scheduled tour stops will include London, Reykjavik, Iceland, and Hamburg, Germany, where the ship was built in 1936. It was later acquired by the US through war reparations. AP

Army soldiers walk past people shouting anti-constitutional amendment slogans during a protest against a referendum, which will be on Saturday, at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Amr Abdaalah Dalsh/Reuters

Protesters take part in a march in Mbabane, the Swaziland capital. Thousands of Swazis marched on the prime minister's office in a rare protest to demand the resignation of the tiny southern African kingdom's government. Swaziland is in the grip of a serious financial crisis and civil servants fear they will not be paid this month after Africa's last absolute monarchy suffered a huge drop in income from the Southern African Customs Union. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

Seen through openings in a mosque wall, Bahrainis pray during the funeral of Ahmed Farhan, a 29-year-old demonstrator slain Tuesday in the town of Sitra, Bahrain. Thousands of Bahrainis gathered for the funeral of the demonstrator, slain Tuesday in the town of Sitra hours after the king declared martial law in response to a month of escalating protests. Shiites account for 70 percent of the tiny island's half-million people but they are widely excluded from high-level posts and positions in the police and military. Sergey Ponomarev/AP

An African worker poses for a photograph during a Purim parade in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Jewish holiday of Purim celebrates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Scroll of Esther. Ariel Schalit/AP

The Brooks mountain range spreads out to the horizon in northern Alaska. Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Ground personal load missiles onto Danish F-16 fighter planes at Skydstrup Air Base in Jutland, Denmark. The Danish Parliament has asked the Air Force to provide four F-16 fighter planes to support the establishment and maintenance of a no-fly zone over Libya. Britain and France took the lead in plans to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya on Friday, sending British warplanes to the Mediterranean and announcing a crisis summit in Paris with the UN and Arab allies. Casper Dalhoff/AP

Britain's general elections used to be straightforward: a predominantly two-horse race between Labour or Conservative governments, left vs. right, red against blue. But as electioneering gets under way for May 7 polls, it's clear the vote has implications for British politics that extend well beyond whoever comes out on top.